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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you're all free on the 15th May cause I have a treat for you!

#ScottishPop #NewWave #PostPunk #ScottishMusic #ScottishMusicians #scotland #LiveMusicScotland #dumbarton

Byrne's Night Dumbarton @byrnes-night.bsky.social · 3d

BYRNE'S NIGHT DUMBARTON
The FIRST EVER tribute to #DavidByrne and #TalkingHeads in David's own hometown of #Dumbarton! Taking place one the Friday after his 74th birthday! Truly a Once In A Lifetime event!!

Dumbarton Harp, 15th May!

Tickets and more details here Wegottickets.com/event/679775

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 5d

Here is Wee Aliya with just some of Linda's pigs! Wooden pigs, glass pigs, ceramic pigs, stone pigs, you name it!

#pigs #pig #CuteAnimals #NeedleFelting #felting #cute #nadelfilzen #ScottishArtist #QueerArtist #AutisticArtist

Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 5d

More photos of Wee Aliya.

If you're wanting a felted pet or other animals to give for Christmas, get your requests in soon, as i tend to get snowed under with commissions in November and December!

#pigs #pets #cute #animals #NeedleFelting #ChristmasGifts #GiftIdeas #CuteAnimals #dogs #cats

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 5d

When Linda (one half of Recordsville, and co-organiser of Pop At The Lock) asked me to make a piggy to add to her vast collection, how could I possibly refuse?

She named this feltie Wee Aliya, which is quite an honour!

#pig #animals #NeedleFelting #felting #CuteAnimals #ScottishArtist #pigs #cute

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17d

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · 24d

Oooooh, what's this?! Exciting!!!

#ScottishPop #ScottishMusician #ScottishMusic #Dumbarton #scotland #DumbartonHarp #LiveMusicScotland

Byrne's Night Dumbarton @byrnes-night.bsky.social · 24d

Awright everyone, ignore my tired eyes, I'm a lot more excited than I look, because we have a venue!

We will be at the #Dumbarton Harp Social Club on Friday 15th May, the weekend of #DavidByrne 's 74th birthday!

Follow this account to bs the first to know! Super exciting info soon to be released!

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Byrne's Night Dumbarton @byrnes-night.bsky.social · Sep 1

Exciting things coming soon! Follow Byrne's Night to be the first to know!

Logo by the very talented @jord-division.bsky.social

#ByrnesNight #DavidByrne #TalkingHeads #PostPunk #NewWave #ArtRock #ScottishMusician #ScottishPop #ScottishMusic #Dumbarton #Scotland #ScottishArtist #DumbartonRock

David Byrne in a grey suit looking to the left. Dumbarton Rock behind him. At the top reads "BYRNE'S NIGHT"

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Sep 2

More photos of the spooky cutie

#WeirdArt #GothicArt #VultureCulture #BoneArt #AnimalSkulls

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am a mole and I live in a hole!

Meet my wee Zombie Mole! A real #mole skull, with a felted body, coming out of a felted molehill!

It was very fiddley gluing aw the wee teefs back in exactly the right sockets!!

The skull is from a mole i found dead in Dumbarton #Scotland

#needleFelting #mammals

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Sep 1

For context, this is the triptych I got the inspiration from.

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Sep 1

More photos of my wee felted Bosch critter

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Sep 1

New Hieronymus Bosch demon! This jolly friend is playing a jaunty tune atop a haystack. This is from the Bosch painting The Haywain.

Let me know if youd like this wee weirdo

#HieronymusBosch #MedievalArt #WeirdMedievalArt #WeirdMedievalCreatures #WeirdArt #GothicArt #AutisticArtist #NeedleFelting

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you for sharing this, Alison! I'm so happy you like your wee spoopy felties!

#NeedleFelting #HieronymusBosch #jackdaw #birds

Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · Aug 21

Just had a special visit from @specsowlart.bsky.social, hand-delivering her incredible creations. The wee devil dog is from Hieronymus Bosch's painting 'The Conjurer', and the two little jackdaws are sitting on a piece of jackdaw bone Aliya found. I'm so happy to give these a home.

A photo of two felt creations - a little dog-like figure and two jackdaws sitting on a piece of bone - with the artist's card behind them

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fank yoo 😊

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you for sharing this Snooze 😊

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 18

More photos of it from different angles

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the sheep leaped over the bone.
This wee sheepy is jumping over a sheep humerus a friend found near Bannockburn.
I made it with curly Wensleydale locks 🤗

#NeedleFelting #sheep #CuteAnimals #animals #WeirdArt #BoneArt #nadelfilzen

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 18

More photos of these wee birbs.
Look how long the daddy's tail is compared to the mama. Male pheasants have such showy plumage, whereas the hens just blend into the nest so she isn't seen.

#birds #bird #birdwatching #pheasant #cute #CuteAnimals #ScottishWildlife #ScottishArtist

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cute wee #pheasants on a #pheasant breastbone. I found the bone in South Ayrshire, summer 2021. The wee felties were very delicate to make. The male has shimmering gold and blue "feathers", and the female has cute speckles on her back and wings.

#NeedleFelting #animals #VultureCulture #birds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Teensy weensy #jackdaws on a #jackdaw breastbone! The bone is from a bird I found dead at Knowetop, #Dumbarton. It was awfy fiddly to make these wee tiddlers but I'm happy with how they turned out 🤗

#NeedleFelting #animals #birds #ScottishWildlife #ScottishBirds #UKbirdwatching #BritishBirds

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just a beautiful #PeacockButterfly I found at #Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve. Out in the rain, tryna warm up. I put them in a more sheltered bit so they could dry off.

#butterfly #butterflies #insects #animals #ScottishWildlife #ScottishNature #invertebrates

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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi @specsowlart.bsky.social · Aug 9

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ALT: homer simpson says oh i get it i get jokes

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